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William Hayley

Literature; General literature

(1745-1820) Poet and biographer, was born at Chichester, and educated at Eton and Cambridge. Though overstrained and romantic, he had some literary ability, and was a good conversationalist. He was ...

Henry Kingsley

Literature; General literature

(1830-1876) Novelist, brother of the above, educated at King's College, London, and Oxford, which he left without graduating, and betook himself to the Australian gold-diggings, being afterwards in ...

John Armstrong, M.D.

Literature; General literature

(1709-1779) Poet, son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire, studied medicine, which he practised in London. He is remembered as the friend of Thomson, Mallet, and other literary celebrities of ...

Edward William Lane

Literature; General literature

(1801-1876) Arabic scholar, son of a prebendary of Hereford, where he was born, began life as an engraver, but going to Egypt in search of health, devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages ...

William Robertson Smith

Literature; General literature

(1846-1894) Theologian and Semitic scholar, son of the Free Church minister of Keig, Aberdeenshire, studied for the ministry of that Church. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew, etc., in its ...

William Sharp (Fiona Macleod)

Literature; General literature

(1856-1905) Wrote under this pseudonym a remarkable series of Celtic tales, novels, and poems, including Pharais, a Romance of the Isles, The Mountain Lovers, The Sin-Eater (1895), The Washer of the ...

William Julius Mickle

Literature; General literature

(1735-1788) Poet, son of the minister of Langholm, Dumfriesshire, was for some time a brewer in Edinburgh, but failed. He went to Oxford, where he was corrector for the Clarendon Press. After various ...